Bio

Hi! I’m Haosen He, an Economics predoc at Stanford University - Law School. I graduated from Wake Forest University in 2022 with a B.S. in Mathematics and a B.A. in Economics (summa cum laude). I’m interested in Game Theory, Market Design, Behavioral Economics, and the intersection of Machine Learning & Causal Inference. I’m currently applying to Ph.D. programs in Economics.

Publication

“An agent-based model of elephant crop consumption walks using combinatorial optimization” with Erin Buchholtz, Frederick Chen, Susanne Vogel, and Chu A.(Alex) Yu. Ecological Modelling (2022). [Paper] [Code]

Work in Progress

“Modeling behavioral response to infectious diseases under information delay” (Honors thesis in Economics) with Frederick Chen and Chu A.(Alex) Yu. R&R, Review of Economic Design (Special Issue: Economics of Epidemics). [Draft] [Slides]

“Improving vaccine access in the developing world through a vaccine trial coalition” [Slides]

R Package

“Overlapping Group Elastic Net Using the Orthogonalizing EM (OEM) Algorithm (ovganet).” with Alison Morantz.

Education

Wake Forest University | Winston-Salem, NC

Mathematics B.S. (Honors) and Economics B.A. (High Honors), summa cum laude | August 2018 - May 2022

Honors and Awards

David and Lelia Farr Prize for Excellence in Mathematical Economics | WFU | Spring 2022

CP West Award (for seniors graduating with the highest GPA) | Phi Beta Kappa | Spring 2022

Wake Forest Research Fellowship | WFU | Summer 2021

Walter Low Tatum Scholarship in Mathematics | WFU | Fall 2020

Richter Scholarship | WFU | Spring 2019